Washing-machine



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES F. CHAMBERS, OF CHAMBERSBURG, INDIANA.

WASHIN G-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 30,562, dated November 6, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHAs. F. CHAMBERS, of Chambersburg, Orange county, Indiana, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in lVashing-Machines; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

My invention relates to the class of washing machines which employ a common wash board and tub, and consists in a peculiar arrangement of upper rubber reciprocated on stationary ways and working in connection with a swinging lower rubber or board adapted to be elevated from the tub and to hold the clothes stationary for the upper rubber to act upon, or to be depressed at will for soaking or shifting the clothes or for use in the common way as a simple wash board.

In the accompanying drawings Figure l represents a machine which embodies my improvement. Fig. 2 is a detached view of the wash board with its removable clamp and handle.

A is a frame so formed as to readily re ceive and firmly hold a common wash tub B.

C are ways which confine and guide a corrugated rubber D which is intended to be reciprocated by the operator by means of a lever E or other convenient appliance.

The wash board F is hinged transversely near its mid length to hangers G which being suspended by spiral springs H from the top of the frame have slight yielding vertical motion.

J is a combined clamp and handle by means of which the clothes are held fast by one end to the board and by which also the board, with its charge of clothes is held up to the rubber either by the left hand of the operator or by means of a catch j.

The handle I is adapted to be readily removed so as to permit the use of the wash board in the usual way.

Operation: The board F, having its lower end submerged in the tub, one end of a garment is rawn into and secured within the clamp J and the handle I being depressed is secured in the catch j so as to conn fine the garment between the corrugated surfaces of the board F and the rubber D and the latter is then (by means of the lever E or otherwise) drawn to and fro over the garment. During the operation the board can be partially or wholly lowered either to inspect or to shift the clothes, or to immerse them again in the liquor, and thus wristbands or other parts that ordinarily require eXtra manipulation may be either worked by hand or be made to undergo a more protracted action by the rubber. Such action may also be increased by a downward stress of the operators left hand upon the handle I.

I claim as new and of my invention herein# The combination of upper rubber D, adapted to reciprocate on stationary ways C, and the swinging lower rubber or board F adapted to be elevated from the t-ub and to hold the clothes stationary for the upper rubber to act upon, or to be depressed at will as and for the objects set forth.

In testimony of which invention, I hereunto set my hand.

C. F. CHAMBERS.

lVitnesses:

Gro. H. KNIGHT, FRANCIS MILLWARD. 

